At 02:37 AM 8/1/99 -0400, Mike Goldman wrote: >David Starner wrote: > >> At 11:15 PM 7/31/99 -0400, Mike Goldman wrote: >> >PM3: Polytechnique Montreal Modula-3 >> >> >The only open question, which I have been discussing on debian-legal, is >> >whether this package needs to go into non-free or whether it can go into >> >main. The relevant part of the license which causes some concern is: >> [chunk snipped] >> >Presently, I'm inclined to release into main, unless anyone strongly >> >objects. >> >> This has come up before. See >> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-legal-9901/msg00002.html . In >> summary, there are copyrights buried in the code that are "all rights >> reserved", i.e. non-free to the max. > >I looked up this thread, and disagree with your summary. The only "all >rights reserved" disclaimer was in a file by Digital, which pointed the >reader to the file COPYRIGHT for more information, which, in turn, is >precisely the license which I have previously posted here and which has only >the qualification noted. There doesn't appear to be any other relevant code >which is covered under a more restrictive license than this.
Stuart Lamble wrote: >The solver is Copyright (C) 1992, Xerox Corporation. >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >This is, literally, the whole copyright statement (as far as I can tell) >for this particular file. > >libs/m3core/src/win32/WinVer.i3 is also worrying: [snip] >* Copyright (c) 1992, Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved * The second file would have to be left out of the source file, which wouldn't be that big a deal. But the first is "all rights reserved" even if it doesn't say so (under copyright law.) If the solver is non-essencial, then it can be left out of the source file, but it is a concern. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alternately [EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I would weep, but my tears have been stolen; I would shout, but my voice has been taken. Thus, I write." - Tragic Poet
